Totally ignoring that it is flying ONLY against others of the same
type. It's no uglier than any other plastic ship. They all suck.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Oh well.
As far as only flying against other PW-5's most of the time, I
am just flying randomly XC to see where I can get to. Whenever
I cross bad sink, or a strong headwind, then I want speed.

My question to the PW-5 supporters.

Would YOU buy one ? As the glider YOU flew every good soaring day ?
If you want the class to grow, sell whatever you have and buy a PW-5.

If you can give any rational reason that you want them to disappear,
and the class to die, other than "it's not your thing", it might shed
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I don't want them to disappear, but this thread in particular accused us
"non-suporters" of being afraid of the WC and asked why we don't support it.
I think it was a poor idea and was poorly executed.

When I started, my interest was in the 1-26, and in particular, MY
snip

I like the 1-26, and if I had a little less cash on hand would have bought
one instead of the Grob.

Todd Smith
G102 3S